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Martine Nederlof

Operations Assistant

The fast-paced world of venture capital and private equity requires an ability to efficiently juggle multiple priorities with a high level of attention to detail. Martine Nederlof embodies these essential traits. Since 1999, Martine has served as the “control tower” of the Velocity office, ensuring the firm’s operations run smoothly. Martine eases day-to-day operational burdens (and moves mountains when needed) so Velocity’s leadership team can remain focused on their mission to identify and support some of the world’s most transformative fintech organizations.

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Velocity Capital Private Equity

Financial technology. It powers practically every transaction we make, everything we earn, buy, sell, borrow and lend. It connects people, instantly and without friction, to products and to each other. Fintech unites global communities, from urban networks of traders to the smallest of rural businesses. Plugging into financial technology can literally open up whole new worlds of opportunities. It’s a great leveler, an unleasher of human potential, the very stuff of the entrepreneurial spirit in everyone. read more

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Emerging markets credit startup Mines.io has closed a $13 million Series A round led by The Rise Fund, the global impact fund formed by private equity giant TPG, and 10 others, including Velocity Capital. read more

UniCredit announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Meniga, the global leader in digital banking solutions. At the same time the Group has taken a minority stake in the company with a EUR 3.1 million investment through UniCredit EVO (Equity Venture Opportunities). read more

Cellulant, a leading Pan-African digital payments service provider that prompts, collects, settles and reconciles payments in real time, has raised $47.5 million from a consortium of investors. read more

Qapital, one of a slew of mobile applications trying to make it easier for users to save money (and spend it more wisely), has raised $30 million in fresh financing as it expands beyond savings to offer investment advisory services.
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Swedbank has invested EUR3 million in personal finance and data aggregation platform Meniga, as it begins the roll out of the firm's technology to customers in Sweden and the Baltic countries. read more